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Last
updated: 24 May 2009
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have missed some member’s requests for access to the Members area. This
is due to my Junk Filter.
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I see them. So if anyone wants access to members area please put subject heading stars member area. For
any other mail please subject it as stars web. Thank you
A few Members have been finding it difficult to get into the Members
Area. I also had trouble at one stage.
To over come this you need to change the Security level when on the
internet. To do this open your browser
and click
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labelled security, this needs to be changed to medium.
This has worked for me and others.
24
May 09 A few notes from a
trip Martin Kirk has done in May can be found HERE
18
May 09 An Update to forthcoming tours
can be found HERE
19 Apr 09 Some updates to 2009 tours have
been added to the tours page
18 Apr 09 There are still a few places left
for the visit to Long Marston on the 26th April. If you wish to go
please E-Mail me markstars@toucansurf.com
or phone 01453 825787 without delay.
12 Mar 09 we are looking at expanding the
members section to include other countries. If anyone would like to collate
information from other systems like I am with the French shunters, I would be
happy to upload them onto this site. I would not have time to collate the
information but if someone is willing to do this for us it would be good.
1
Mar 09
27
Jan. 09 French Track Company
TSO has kindly sent me a list of all the Locomotives in there fleet. Copy in
Members Area.
25
Jan 3 More tour Reports
have been added from 2008
18
Jan. 09
18
Jan. 09
3
January 2009 The
29
Dec Good news for those
that are looking to go on the Lyon French tour in 2009, and a
Some other news
24
Dec Merry
Christmas to all. Hope to see you next year. From all at STARS
29
Nov I am now back on
line after moving. PLEASE NOTE
I now have a new e-mail. markstars@toucansurf.com
7 Nov There may be no updates for a few
weeks as I will be moving and have been told my email address will change as
well. So please don’t email me anything from the 13th November
as I may not get it. Thank you for you co-operation
29
Oct The Y charts have
been updated
28 Oct I have had one member yesterday
complain that there is no foreign news. This is due to NO MEMBERS submitting
anything in over 2 months to be put on the web site. The reason for stock
formations appearing is to try and give something for those members that are
only interested in
29
Sep The Y Charts have
been updated
10
Sep. 08 A brief Description can be found HERE for 2009 tours from
STARS.
2 Sep
18
Aug We at STARS are looking
at ways of improving our tours for you. To do this we have done a questionnaire for you to fill
in.
Please send this back when you
receive it or fax or E-Mail it back to stars.web@toucansurf.com thank you for your
support.
15 July I was thinking of putting on
this site for all to see, formations of stock seen such as HST sets and Mk4 stock.
Would anyone like this and would anyone be able to forward sittings to me to
keep it up to date. Please let me know what you think stars.web@toucansurf.com
. Thank you
14 July NO
We regret to announce that we have cancelled our planned
On a positive note we intend to take a fresh look at the
tour with a view to running next year. It would be a pity to waste such golden
opportunities to visit locations which have previously been considered out of
reach now that they have materialised.
24 June 66414 took 66301 +
66304 + 66305 to
17 June Some exciting news
about the USA tour can be found here
15 June
5 Jun An update to
forthcoming tour availability can be found HERE
25 May The Y location chart has been updated
22 May The
5 May An update to forthcoming tour availability can be found HERE
27 Apr Due to continuing problems with Inchicore Works, the Irish tour
will not be visiting it this year. This will not affect the rest of the
tour which will run as advertised. If you still want to go on this tour
please let us know by the 9th May
The East German and
soon as the accommodation may limit the numbers on the tours.
This years
based there for the week. The brochure for this tour will be available
within 14 days
21 Apr Members area has been updated with the Y listings updated to
end of last year. Also some sightings by Rose
2 Mar
Luxembourg & Saarland as running in a LARGE COACH
29 Feb Some useful info from Tony Bartlett about the Czech Railtour
11 Feb I have been told by David Campbell that on the
Lithuanian Tour, the train from
Radvilskis just after 9. Which gives more time there than planned.
22 Jan The current 2008 Tour status can be found here
07
Jan It
looks like I may have missed some member’s requests for access to the
Members area. This is due to my Junk
Filter. If there is no Subject Matter all mail is deleted from the
server before I see them. So if anyone wants access to members area please put
subject heading stars member area. For any other mail please subject it as
stars web. Thank you
07
Jan All Officers at STARS INTERNATIONAL wish all our Members and
Associates,
Albeit a little belatedly!!
A
Very Happy New Year
2008 Tour update can be found here
New
sales items can be found here
05 Jan Neil Caplan has come
up with an alternative way to reach the Lithuanian Tour meeting point.
There is a train service from
Please
remember that you should be at the Hotel in
20 Dec STARS 2008 Tours have
now been posted
18
Dec Adrian has asked me to advise everyone that at this time of
the year he is currently working between 13 & 15 hour days during the week
(No he's not dressed up in a red costume with talc in his beard) at the
job for which he does receive payment! Consequently, he is unable
to deal with any e.mails until weekends, and anyone who has contacted
him in this way, should not expect a reply during the week.
11
Dec: The STARS 2008 International
Members who read Today's
Railways will notice that our usual advert this year is missing, this is due to
us missing
the deadline to send a
copy in. But the advert will appear in the next issue, with thanks to the staff
at Platform 5
Also in the same issue
there will be a supplement about our tours for 2008 in the rail Holidays
section.
18 Nov: A
few Members have been finding it difficult to get into the Members Area. I also
had trouble at one stage.
To over come this you need to change
the Security level when on the internet.
To do this open your browser and click
on tools then click on internet
options. Here you will find a tag labelled security, this needs to be changed
to medium.
This has worked for me and others.
17 Nov: Any members who require access to
the members area should E-Mail me their Name, Membership Number and a
Password they would
like to use (can contain numbers and/or words) stars.web@toucansurf.com
9 Nov: A Brief description of 2008 tours
can be found here.
9 Nov: The Grande Belgium Tour Report has been posted
9 Nov: Some more Photos
from the
31 Oct: Colin Dingley has just got back from a weekend
in
VSG 27333 on
Delivery, Le
Bourget 60029 75046
Gare de L`est B 82505/06/07/08 TGV 4414
24 Oct: The Y chart list has been updated
24 Oct: We hope to have the Dates for 2008 tours sent
out by the end of November
29 Aug: I have just started to put older tour reports up in the member’s
area starting with the long awaited BAYERN 2005
29 Jul: Some news for you
that are on the
29 Jul: Martin Kirk has been on his travels again Here is a report of his trip
in
20 Jun: Rose has just got back from
13 Jun: Have recently received another report of sightings from
Martin Kirk on his travels this time the Netherlands
13
Jun: Having
recently read the latest STARS Mag I have noticed a slight mistake in the
E-Mail address for items to be sent
to for putting on the web site. This may be why I have had very little
to put on the web over the last few months. Just to remind you the E-Mail
address is
stars.web@toucansurf.com
12 May: Martin Kirk has been on his travels again. Here is what he saw.
(23
Mar): I spent a day on
The trains got into
later in the evening.
(20
Mar): A list of what has
been seen on Sotteville Depot by Brian Redwood
(20
Mar): The 3rd
Edition of the STARS “SNCF Numerical
Listing of New and Renumbered Locomotives and Units since 1999”
Is now available
(5
Mar): We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Edition of the
popular STARS publication “SNCF
Numerical Listing of New
and Renumbered Locomotives and Units since 1999” will be available shortly, making its first
appearance on the
North & Central
It has been completely updated and now includes Names of Units and the
French Department which `Owns` the Units. This should help with locating them.
Added since the last edition are Loco classes 60xxx,
690xx, and 721xx, and Unit classes
B825xx, Z150, Z850, Z5600, Z20500, and TGV 601 & 701 and U 255.
This edition includes all renumbered, reformed and new Locos and Units that
have been introduced since 1999 with allocated Depots, as known up to Mid March
2007.
The published price for this edition is £3.50, but is
available to members at the reduced price of £2.50.
(16 Feb): A useful link for those that are interested in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_98
(16 Feb): The Severn Tunnel will close for engineering
works for four weekends, February 17/8 - March 10/11.
FGW
(16 Feb): Latest
news from Stars
International
(26
Jan): Virgin and the Daily Mail have combined to produce some
excellent bargain fares.
Examples:
You need to buy next
week's Daily Mails starting Jan 29th.
Check it out on the Virgin website.
Noticed by Colin Dingley.
(15
Jan): The first report of 2007 Martin Kirk has been to Marseille and Miramas
11 Jan): A
few Members have been finding it difficult to get into the Members Area. I also
had trouble at one stage.
To over come this you need to change
the Security level when on the internet.
To do this open your browser and click
on tools then click on internet
options. Here you will find a tag labelled security, this needs to be changed
to medium.
This has worked for me and others.
(11 Jan): The
Y location Chart has been updated
(8 Jan): I have changed my E-Mail
address to make life easier for me to see what is stars related.
It is now stars.web@toucansurf.com
Please send anything for the web-site to
this address. Thanks.
(3
Jan): LOYALTY
DISCOUNT QUALIFYING DATES EXTENDED.
As we issued our 2007
International Tour Brochure later than we anticipated, we have
reviewed the situation and
decided that we were a little unfair in giving you such
a
restricted response time for bookings to be made for the first 3 tours
advertised for 2007.
(20 Dec): Just
back from Newport and seen new Class 66`s
66723---727
(20 Dec): The
Y location Chart has been modified and updated
(15 Dec): Martin
Kirk has been to Paris & Rouen here are a few of
the items he has seen. He is also after your HELP
(15 Dec): Ron
Longbottom has been in the
(4 Dec): The
Y Locations has been updated
(4 Dec): Peter
Gouldsbro has been Sotteville dump as has recorded
the following
(18 Nov): Having
had some training off Terry I have now started to do the web-site. If you could
now E-mail me items instead of Terry. I
hope I am able to do as good a job as Terry has done over the years.
(15 Nov): Charlie
Cross has sent in some sightings at Tilburg
and Inchicore Works following visits to both.
(15 Nov): Charlie
Cross has sent in some info on Belgian and Dutch trams.
(11
Nov): If you are interested in Class 66s, Martin Kirk has pointed out
that there is an interesting news item on Colin Marsden's site www.TheRailwayCentre.com
under
(11 Nov): Colin Dingley has sent in a list of
‘Y’s he saw on a recent trip.
(11 Nov): Try
the
(11 Nov): Dave Hunt has sent in a list of
’Y’s seen on a recent trip
(6
Nov): Some recent ‘Y’ sightings around Paris from Rose
Purdy.
(6 Nov): Rose Purdy
has reported that local French newspapers have stated that there is a serious
problem with asbestos from locomotives at Oullins and
(2
Nov): Some ‘Y’ sightings around Lyon
from Rose Purdy.
(30 Oct): Martin Kirk has been on my ‘manor’ and sent in
an excellent account of his trip to Holland, including
some recommended websites.
(19 Oct): The following from Fred Isherwood: I have just returned from a tour of France
and on checking some of my sightings against Martin Kirk's from Sept. 27th, I
can confirm that the Y at Estaque was Y7114 (not Y7112). I made the same
mistake on my journey to Marseille, but on the return the train was moving
slowly and I was able to double check it with the end number. I needed Y7112!!
(19 Oct): An interesting livery of the loco in the photo sent in by
Fred Isherwood.
(19 Oct): A list of sightings by
Dave Hunt on a recent combined German-Dutch tour.
(16 Oct): Some info from David Hunt on shunters in
Rotterdam.
(14 Oct): Ron
Longbottom’s been to
(14 Oct): Couple of
SNCF ‘Y’ sightings by Alan Eastham:
7833 on
(14 Oct): According to Dave Hunt the loco involved in the collision
with a CFL EMU was SNCF 37007. Pictures
on the television show the unit to be CFL 2207.
(6 Oct): Colin Dingley has sent in an update on the Sablon dump and some ‘Y’
sightings.
(6 Oct): Les Drury visited the
(6 Oct): Martin Kirk
has been to
(2 Oct): Ron’s been to Spain
and Denmark recently and has, as usual, sent in
lists of his sightings.
(25 Sep): Ken Ashwell reports on his
sightings in the Chambery area.
(25 Sep): Some recent ‘SNCF
‘Y’ sightings at Bordeaux from Kevin Wood.
(25 Sep): An update on the contents of Culoz scrap
yard from Ken Ashwell.
(25 Sep): Some recent ‘SNCF
‘Y’ sightings from Rose Purdy.
(25 Sep): We are pleased to announce our provisional
tour programme for 2007. Please note
the caveat concerning the dates of certain tours.
(16 Sep): Attention all you Francophiles: Thanks to the efforts of John Foster and all
you contributors (for which many thanks) the SNCF ‘Y’ Locator (accessible
from the home page) has been updated, but remember you need a password to
access it, which is easy if you are a member – just drop me an e-mail
with the password you would like me to set up.
If you are not a member and would like access, well membership of STARS is your answer!
(12 Sep): Some info
from Martin Kirk following a recent visit to Belgium.
(9 Sep): Some info
from
(2 Sep): I’m aware that at least 4 of our members have not been
enjoying the best of health of late.
Best wishes go to Phil Regan, Dave Ford, Dave Gifford and Robin Oakley
for speedy recoveries.
(2 Sep) The STARS
STATESIDE Bulletin Board has been updated.
(2 Sep): Ron’s been to the
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